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wormy, a.|ˈwɜːmɪ|
[f. worm n. + -y1. Cf. MHG. wurmic, -ec, G. wurmig, Du. wormig.]
1. Attacked, gnawed, or bored by worms or grubs; worm-eaten.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cxxxiii. (1869) 128, I am a wormy wilowh; who so leneth to me is lost. 1562Legh Armorie (1568) 120 b, Studiously keping those monuments from wormie wemes. 1611Cotgr., Vereux, wormie, full of wormes. 1708Ozell tr. Boileau's Lutrin 54 The wormy Boards, by Time's corroding Spight disjoin'd. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club) 213 All the fruit in that country is very wormy, and some of the finest nuts had a great worm in the kirnall. 1847Emerson Poems, Woodnotes ii. 307 And thou,—go burn thy wormy pages. 1848Dickens Dombey lvii, An old brown, panelled, dusty vestry,..where the wormy registers diffuse a smell like faded snuff. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 176 We have picked nearly every apple (wormy or otherwise).
transf.1833in New Statist. Acc. Scotl. (1845) III. Selkirk 41 The..herbage on the hills..was destroyed by a caterpillar in 1762, long called the wormy year.
b. fig. = worm-eaten c.
1611Coryate's Crudities, Panegyr. Verses c 5 b, Old wormy age that in thy mustie writs Of former fooles records the present wits. 1908Hardy Dynasts iii. vii. viii. 343 Europe's wormy dynasties rerobe Themselves in their old gilt.
c. Arch. = vermiculated 1 c.
1823[see vermiculated 1 c].
2. Of the body, its parts and secretions: Infested or affected with worms, itch-mites, etc. Of fish: Lousy (U.S.).
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 362/1 An oyntment for the Wormye, and itchinge Handes. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme ii. xlii. 255 The iuice thereof dropped into wormie eares, doth kill the wormes that is in them. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. ii. viii. 105 What would..he presage by such a wormie vrine? 1679T. Trapham Disc. Health Jamaica 103 Children the chief subjects of Worms and wormy Slime. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 140 It is used by Chirurgeons in putrid and wormy ulcers. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Ascarides, The horses that breed ascarides are, above all others, subject to slime and wormy matter. 1860Encycl. Brit. (ed. 8) XXI. 974/2 The poor of Scotland..are not more wormy than the better fed poor of England. 1884Springfield (Mass.) Wheelmen's Gaz. Nov. 110/3 The stream was fairly alive with trout but the large ones were wormy.
3. Of earth, soil, the grave, etc.: Infested with worms, full of worms.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 384 Damned spirits all,..Alreadie to their wormie beds are gone. 1625Milton Death fair Infant 31 Yet can I not perswade me thou are dead..Or that thy beauties lie in wormie bed. 1631W. Lisle Faire æthiopian x. 176 The men of Sere, Who brought the King two silken robes to weare, Of daintie sleaue drawne from their wormie trees. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 345 Loose wormey ground. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. iii. 281 Feelingly sweet is stillness after storm, Though under covert of the wormy ground! 1838De Quincey Shaks. Wks. 1890 IV. 76 The wormy grave brought into antagonism with the scenting of the early dawn. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. II. iv. 71 Birds..busily scratched their food out of the wormy earth.
transf.1820Keats Isabella xlix, Wherefore all this wormy circumstance? Why linger at the yawning tomb so long?
4. Resembling a worm; worm-like.
Formerly in techn. terms, esp. Anat.; as wormy body [tr. corpus lumbricosum: see worm n. 11 a], the epididymis; wormy process = vermiform process (vermiform 3 b).
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde i. xi. (1552) 23 b, When thys foresayd wormye body hath attayned to the myddle regyon..of thee stone, it..is no more..thycke wrethed, but playne, smoth, and round. 1615Crooke Body of Man 477 The anterior and posterior processes of the braine, called vermi-formes or the wormy processes. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Wks. vi. xxix. 222 The 4. other [muscles of the hand] are called, by reason of their figure, the Lumbrici or wormy muscles. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1683) 60 Pliny..calls it Coccus Scolecius, or the Wormy Berry.
1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 220 A weary, wormy darkness, spurred i' the flank With flame, that it should eat and end itself Like some tormented scorpion. 1876Morris æneids vii. 351 The dreadful wormy thing Seemed the wrought gold about her neck [fit tortile collo aurum ingens coluber]. 1888Harper's Mag. Aug. 327 With fleshy, brilliant, long, wormy feelers instead of fins. 1895B. M. Croker Village T. (1896) 152 Lumps of sticky cocoanut and deliciously long, wormy native sweets.
b. fig. Grovelling; earthy; crooked, tortuous.
1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxxvii. 459 Hereby wee are brought to a Just Contempt of sordid and wormie Affections. Ibid. xxxviii. 499 To be of a creeping and wormy disposition,..to raise the Soule unto no higher Contemplations, than Base and Worldly. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 353, I have constantly considered the light of the Sun married as a husband to the Splendour of the Glo-worm;..one Heavenly and constant; but the other wormy or corruptible. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. vii. 669 That is the fruit of all such wormy ways, The indirect, the unapproved of God: You cannot find their author's end and aim.
5. Of or pertaining to worms. poet.
1801Southey Thalaba ix. xxiii, Next with naked hand, She pluck'd the boughs of the manchineel; And of the wormy wax she took, That, from the perforated tree forced out, Bewray'd its insect-parent's work within. 1842Hood Elm Tree iii. 351 With sudden fear her wormy quest The Thrush abruptly quits. |